(rants and observations on outsider culture, music & cinema in The Big Wet)

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

The continuing saga of "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"

Wow. Turns out that in 1968, after Jerry Lee, but quite likely pre-Kenny (because black musicians weren't exactly known for ripping off the whites back then, if you know what I mean), the song was actually covered by soul singer Bettye Lavette! Fantastic!

There is also a great dark country blues version by Mickey Newbury, the guy who wrote the song, a year previously! Jesus! The chord changes for the song, by the way, are here. Not quite sure if that follows the Newbury version, but in the absence of a horn section, just give it a dark country blues feel, and you'll make out okay!

(By the way, since that song was allegedly written as an anti-LSD song, check out Larry Norman's "No More LSD For Me" as a follow-up course - not quite as good as "Six Sixty Six," but... I mean, doesn't it sound an awful lot like Daniel Johnson?).

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